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THE Association internationale pour l'Etude du Quaternaire europeen, which met last at Leningrad in 1932, will hold its third session at Vienna on September 1-5. Prof. A. Penck is honorary president, Prof. G. Gotzinger is president and Dr. O. Ampferer is president of the Organizing Committee. On this occasion, however, in accordance with a resolution passed at Leningrad, the scope of the Congress is to be the Quaternary in general and not the Quaternary of Europe only. Communications have already been promised on questions previously arranged for discussion in relation to the Quaternary of Austria and the Alpine glaciations covering stratigraphy, chronology, morphology, climate, prehistory and speleology. MM. Menghin, Kyrle, Beninger and Liebus will devote attention to the palaeolithic period. Arrangements have been made for two excursions while the Congress is in session. Of these, one will visit the loess regions of the Danube Valley (Gottweig, Krems) and the other those in the neighbourhood of Vienna (Laaerbeg). At the close there will be a one-day excursion to the Drachenhohle of Mixnits, while on September 7–8 an excursion will visit the loess of Weinviertel. Finally, a long excursion has been arranged for September 9–25, to visit the Austrian Alps and adjacent terrain. An illustrated guide-book is in course of preparation. Membership is a condition of attendance at the Congress, the annual subscription being 10 schillings (Austrian) or two dollars. In addition to the privilege of attendance at the Congress, members receive copies of reports which cover the progress of quaternary studies from 1908 until 1935. There are at present 180 members of the Congress drawn from twenty-five nations. Communications relating to the Congress or to membership should be addressed to Drs. Gotzinger and Ampferer, Geologische Bundesanstalt, Rasumofsky-gasse, Wienlll, or to the General Secretary, Herr H. Gams, Botanische Institut, Innsbruck-Hotting.
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International Association for Quaternary Studies. Nature 138, 23–24 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138023e0
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